Earth and Climate Sciences

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  People

  • Administrative Positions

    • Klein, Emily M., Chair of the Earth and Ocean Sciences Division

  • Professorships

    • Barber, Richard T., Harvey W. Smith Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Oceanography in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
    • Chameides, William, Nicholas Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Environment in the Nicholas School of the Environment
    • Klein, Emily M., Bass Fellow
    • Klein, Emily M., University Distinguished Service Professor
    • Lozier, M. Susan, Bass Fellow
    • Lozier, M. Susan, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Distinguished Professor Emerita
    • Pratson, Lincoln F., Bass Fellow
    • Pratson, Lincoln F., Gendell Family Professor of Energy and Environment
    • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science

  • Primary Appointments

    • Baker, Paul A., Professor of Geochemistry
    • Barber, Richard T., Professor Emeritus
    • Boudreau, Alan E., Professor Emeritus of Geology
    • Cassar, Nicolas, Professor of Biogeochemistry
    • Chameides, William, Professor Emeritus
    • Corliss, Bruce, Professor Emeritus
    • Glass, Alexander, Senior Lecturer
    • Haff, Peter K., Professor Emeritus
    • Hu, Shineng, Assisant Professor of Physical Oceanography
    • Jackson, Robert B., Adjunct Professor of Earth & Ocean Sciences
    • Johnson, Timothy Lawrence, Professor of the Practice of Energy and the Environment
    • Klein, Emily M., Professor
    • Li, Wenhong, Associate Professor of Climate
    • Loughlin, Daniel, Adjunct Professor in Earth and Ocean Sciences
    • Lozier, M. Susan, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Emerita Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
    • Malin, Peter E., Professor Emeritus in the Nicholas School of the Environment
    • McGlynn, Brian, Adjunct Professor
    • Murray, A. Brad, Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes
    • Pratson, Lincoln F., Professor of Energy and Environment
    • Shindell, Drew Todd, Professor of Climate Sciences
    • Vengosh, Avner, Professor of Environmental Quality

  • Secondary Appointments

    • Barros, Ana P., Professor
    • Clark, James S., Professor in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
    • Katul, Gabriel G., Professor in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
    • Kay, Richard Frederick, Professor in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
    • Oren, Ram, Professor in Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences

  • Non-Faculty Positions

    • Karr, Jonathan, Research Scientist
    • Kondash, Aj, Duke Temporary Service

  • Affiliate Positions

    • Lauzon, Becca, Affiliate

  • Students

    • Benson, Erin, Student
    • Elliott, Brianna, Student
    • Fail, Robin, Student
    • Grieco, Dana, Student
    • Gu, Junyao, Student
    • Gu, Shuai, Student
    • He, Keqi, Student
    • Horan, Rebecca, Student
    • Hu, Ningjie, Student
    • Jeffress, Nicolas, Student
    • Niebergall, Alex, Student
    • Wang, Zhen, Student
    • Williams, Gordon, Student
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  Administers Grant

  • 3D Numerical Modeling of Subduction Zone Anisotropy
  • A Comprehensive Study of Fracture Patterns and Densities in the Geysers Geothermal Reservoir using Microearthquake Shear-wave Splitting Tomography
  • A Comprehensive Study of Fracture Patterns and Densities in the Geysers Reservoir using Microearthquake Shear-wave Splitting Tomography
  • A Focus on the Scientific Contributions by Women to the Field of Physical Oceanography
  • A Mentoring Workshop for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography: Link to NASA Labs
  • A Mentoring Workshop for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography: Link to NASA Labs
  • A Proposal to Manage the U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP) (Off-campus)
  • A Proposal to Manage the U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP) (On-campus)
  • A Proposed Southeastern Regional Center of the National Institute of Climate Change: Research at Duke University
  • Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer
  • An Assessment of Norwegian Fjords for High Resolution Climatic Records
  • An Integrative Investigation of the Sources and Effects of Groundwater Contamination for Local Communities
  • Analyses of whole leaf samples for stable isotopes (15N, 13C) and weight percent Nitrogen and Carbon.
  • Approaching Seismology in the Source: Duke Participation in SAFOD Pilot Hole Science
  • Approaching Seismology in the Source: Earthquake Source Studies at LVEW and SAFOD
  • Assessing potential human health impacts associated with the use of oilfield produced water for crop irrigation
  • Assessing the Impact of Economic Sanctions on Economic Interdependencies between Nations
  • Assessing the International Risk to National Economies Posed by a Marine Chokepoint Shutdown
  • Benchmarking climate model top-of-atmosphere radiance in the 9.6 ozone band compared to TES and IASI observations
  • Biodiversity Conservation in the Binational Mira-Mataje River Basins-Building Biophysical and Socio-Environmental Bases for Conservation and the Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Services
  • Biogas Utilization in North Carolina Opportunities and Impact Analysis
  • Biological and physical drivers of O2 saturation and net community production variability at the Western Antarctic Peninsula
  • Bridging the Gap; A Promising Vertebrate Fossil Assemblage Site in the Madre de Dios Region, Peru
  • Building a Coastal Resilience Network on the Eastern Shore of Virginia to Catalyze Integrated, Science-Based Hazard Miti
  • CAREER: Method development for high-resolution underway N2 fixation measurements
  • CCS Pipeline Routing for Geosequestration
  • Calibrating Crack Density and Seismic Velocity Tomograms of Long Valley Caldera: A Piggy Back Study Utilizing the August 1998 Long Valley Deep Drilling Plan
  • Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes on Small Sample
  • Chateaubriand Fellowship for Jennifer Harkness
  • Chemical Characterization of Oil and Gas Spill Water in North Dakota
  • Collab Research: High-res record late Quaternary paleohydrology/paleoclimate Amazon Basin
  • Collaborative Research: Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic - the Irminger and Iceland Basins
  • Collaborative Proposal: Anatomy of an Overlapping Spreading Center: Geochemical and Geological Study of the EPR 903N OSC
  • Collaborative Proposal: CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat
  • Collaborative Proposal: CALIPSO Project: Imaging the Magma Chamber on Montserrat
  • Collaborative Proposal: Magma Reservoir - Conduit Dynamics as Revealed by Borehole Geophysical Observatory and Continuous GPS
  • Collaborative Proposal: Magma Reservoir - Conduit Dynamics as Revealed by Borehole Geophysical Observatory and Continuous GPS (Supplement)
  • Collaborative Research in Holocene Geology and Anthropology: Paleoclimate, Landscape Evolution, and Human Occupation of the Western Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru
  • Collaborative Research: Export Pathways from the Subpolar North Atlantic: Phase Two
  • Collaborative Research: Calibration of a New Approach to Reconstruct Ancient Bottom Water Oxygen Levels
  • Collaborative Research: Coastal Geomorphic Consequences of Wave Climate Change
  • Collaborative Research: Coasts in Motion: Quantifying the Patterns of Coastal Change Using LIDAR
  • Collaborative Research: Continuation and Enhancement of MPOWIR
  • Collaborative Research: Enhancing our Understanding of North Atlantic Deep Water Pathways using Nonlinear Dynamics Techniques
  • Collaborative Research: Evolution and Fate of Eighteen Degree Water in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
  • Collaborative Research: Experimental Study of Basin Statigraphy
  • Collaborative Research: Export Pathways from the Subpolar North Atlantic; with A. Bower, WHOI
  • Collaborative Research: Export Pathways from the Subpolar North Atlantic; with A. Bower, WHOI (supplement)
  • Collaborative Research: Holocene Drought in the North American Interior
  • Collaborative Research: How do Seedlings Survive? Carbon Acquisition, Hydrolics and Drought Tolerance During the Earliest Phase of Tree Growth
  • Collaborative Research: Implementation of a Mentoring Program for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography
  • Collaborative Research: Lake Titicaca Drilling Program
  • Collaborative Research: MARGINS: Experimental and Theoretical Study of Linked Sedimentary Systems
  • Collaborative Research: Morphology and Molecules Diatom Diversification, Extinction, and Dispersal in an Ancient Tropical Lake System
  • Collaborative Research: Observation and Modeling of Inner Shelf Sediment Dynamics and Large-Scale Sorting: Cross-shelf or Alongshelf Transport?
  • Collaborative Research: Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic - Labrador Basin and Floats
  • Collaborative Research: Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic-the Irminger and Iceland Basins
  • Collaborative Research: Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic-the Irminger and Iceland Basins
  • Collaborative Research: Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic-the Irminger and Iceland Basins-Supplement
  • Collaborative Research: Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Proxies
  • Collaborative Research: Resolution of the Stratigraphic Record for a High Input, Collision-Margin Shelf Basin: The MARGINS Waipaoa Focus
  • Collaborative Research: Sea-LEvel Rise and Vegetation Controls on Deltaic Landform Eveolution: A Coupled Experimental and Numerical Modeling Study.
  • Collaborative Research: The Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Sediments, Middle Valley, Juan De Fuca Ridge
  • Collaborative Research: The Influence of the Mediterranean Overflow Water on the Climate Variability of the North Atlantic
  • Collaborative Research: The Transition from Rifting to Seafloor Spreading at the Western Tip of the Cocos-Nazca Rift
  • Collaborative Research: Tracing Coal Ash Solids in the Environment - Implications for long-term contamination of the aquatic ecosystem
  • Collaborative Research: Trans-Amazon Drilling Project
  • Collaborative Research: Understanding Long-Term Variability in the North Atlantic Subtropical High Driven by Evolving Tropical and Subtropical High Driven by Evolving Tropical and Subtropical Large-Scale Heating
  • Comparative Geothermal Studies: California and Kenya. A Comprehensive Study of Fracture Patterns and Densities in the Geysers Geothermal Reservoir Using Microearthquake Shear-wave Splitting Tomography
  • Complexity in Geomorphology Symposium: Binghamton 2007
  • Comprehensive Study of Fracture Patterns and Densities...
  • Continuation and enhancement of the MPOWIR program
  • Continued Development of the NASA GISS composition-climate model and analysis of inhomogeneous forcing and climate response
  • Contributions Toward An Integrative Process-Based Model of Stratigraphy Formation
  • Core-Top Calibration and Application of a New Paleoceanographic Tool: The Shell Chemistry of Marine Ostracodes
  • Coupled Ecological-Geomorphological Response of Coastal Wetlands to Environmental Change
  • Coupling Human and Natural Influences on Coastline Evolution as Climate Changes
  • Cutting Geothermal Costs by Locating High-production Wells: A Test of the Volcanoseismic Approach to Finding "Blind" Resources
  • Deep Ocean Temperature and Climate Change Over the Last 200,000 Years
  • Deep Recirculations in the Atlantic Basins
  • Deep Recirculations in the Atlantic Basins
  • Derivation of a Global Net Community Assessment of Regulating Factors Using in-Situ Measurements & Remotely Sensed Prop.
  • Desert Pavement Studies
  • Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Changes in Climate Extremes and Variability
  • Development of Environmental Proxies for Coastal Environments
  • Discrete Methods of Sediment Transport Modeling
  • Distribution of uranium and thorium in coal deposits and concentrations of NORMs in coal ash in India
  • Drought-induced mortality of trees: ecosystem changes under climate change
  • Duke Participation in SAFOD: Two Collaborative Seismic Profiling Studies Using the Geophone Array in the SAFOD Pilot Hole
  • Dynamics of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC), Biological Oxygen Production and Dinitrogen Fixation in the Coastal Ocean
  • EAGER: A novel geochemical approach for environmental risk assessment of stray gas contamination in shallow aquifers within active and prospective shale gas development zones.
  • EAGER: Method development for the assessment of spatiotemporal Variablility on Non symbiotic N2 fixation: Acetylene Reduction Assay by CAvity ring-down Spectroscopy (ARACAS)
  • EAGER: The occurrence and distribution of hexavalent chromium and other contaminants in groundwater from aquifers of the Eastern United States
  • EDF Coordinated Campaign in the Barnett Shale Operations
  • ESE Collaborative Research: Modeling New Behaviors
  • EU Renewable Energy Program Team Travel Support
  • Ecology of Benthonic Foraminifera
  • Education and Outreach for the NASA Aquarius Satellite Mission
  • Effects of Ridge-Subconduction on Mid-Ocean Ridge Magmatism: A Geochemical Study of the Chile Ridge
  • Effects of Ridge-Subduction on Mid-Ocean Ridge Magmatism: A Geochemical Study of the Chile Ridge
  • Effects of Surface Patchiness on Sediment Transport Modeling
  • Elucidating Risks: From Exposure and Mechanism to Outcome
  • Environmental and Health Risks of Oil and Gas Waste Water in New York and Pennsylvania
  • Environmental effects of the coal ash spill and remediation at Kingston TN
  • Erosion Study at Yuma Proving Ground
  • Estimating Climate Change Health Impacts due to Temperature Extremes
  • Examining Physical Drivers of Phytoplankton Bloom Phenology in Subpolar Regions
  • FESD Type I: Dynamics of Mountains, Landscapes and Climate Biodiversity Amazon/Andean Forest
  • Fg Mapping and Fault Segment Interactions at Parkfield
  • Fg Mapping and Fault Segment Interactions at Parkfield: Project Completion
  • Fluoride and human health: Assessing novel biomarkers in detecting bone disorder
  • Gas and Oil Isotope Sample Analysis
  • Gas and Oil Isotopic Analysis
  • Geochemical Analysis of Ostracodes from the Arctic Ocean: Last Glacial Maximum to Present
  • Geochemical Modeling of Young Basalts
  • Geochemical characteristics of formation water in China
  • Geochemistry and Early Diagenesis of the Monterey Formation, Shell Beach, California
  • Geochemistry and Early Diagenesis of the Monterey Formation, Shell Beach, California
  • Geochemistry of Axial Lavas from Intra-Transform Spreading Centers of the Valdivia F.Z. System, Chile Ridge
  • Geochemistry of Axial Lavas from Intra-Transform Spreading Centers of the Valdivia...
  • Halogen Distribution in the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe
  • Halogen Geochemistry and CL Isotopes of the Stillwater and Bushveld Complexes
  • Halogen Geochemistry and Cl Isotypes of the Stillwater and Bushveld Complexes
  • Heat Waves, Medication Use, and Adverse Health Outcomes Among Older Adults
  • High primary productivity in the absence of Ekman upwelling: A new paradigm for nutrient supply in the intergyre North Atlantic
  • Hydro-fracturing and Gas Drilling Impacts on the Society: An Integrative Workshop to Evaluate the State of Science and Policy
  • Hydrologic Influences on Soil Trace Gas fluxes
  • ICEPKAP 2004: A Collaborative Joint Geophysical Imaging Project at Krafla & IDDP
  • Impact of Greenland sea-ice melt on marine biogeochemistry and productivity
  • Impaction of Igneous Compaction
  • Improved observation of effects of hydrology and micro-topography on belowground C cycling and net ecosystem exchange in natural and managed forested wetlands in the Southeast U.S. to improve ecosystem models
  • In Support of MPOWIR, a Community-Based Mentoring Program: Patullo Conference 2011
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • Initial Modeling of Rocky Coastline Evolution
  • Investigation and Development of Some Discrete Methods for Sediment Mechanics Modeling
  • JASON/MEDEA and Alvin Investigation of the Uppermost Oceanic Crust at Hess Deep
  • Lake Titicaca: Toward a Detail Record of Lake Quaternary Climate in Subtropical South America
  • Layered Instrusion-Footwall Hydrothermal Interactions - An Analog For Subduction Zone Hydrothermal Systems
  • Leadership of a Mentoring Program for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography
  • Live Benthic Foraminifera on the Ontong Java Plateau
  • Local and remote regional climate responses to regional forcings
  • Matching Funds for the Acquisition of Direct Current Plasma Emission Spectrometer
  • Measurement of Methane Emissions from City of Boston, Massachusetts Infrastructure
  • Microhabitation of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera and Paleoceanographic Applications
  • Modeling of Selected Continental Slope Proceses and Correlation of the Deposits they Produce
  • Morphotype and Carbon Isotopic Analyses of Holocene Benthic Foraminifera from the Northwest African Margin
  • Morphotype and Carbon Isotopic Analysis of Holocene Benthic Foraminifera from the Northwest African Margin
  • Mountain top mining effects on watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry
  • New Geologic Mapping in the Apex Cokesbury 7.5' Quadrangle NC
  • New Geologic Mapping in the Apex Cokesbury 7.5' Quadrangle NC
  • New Geologic Mapping in the Cary 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, Wake County, North Carolina
  • New Geologic Mapping in the New Hill 7.5 min. Quadrangle, Wake and Chatham Counties, NC
  • Non-local physical controls on subtropical marine productivity
  • North Atlantic Ocean Circulation and Variability
  • Ocean Ridge Basalts with Convergent Margin Geochemical Affinities from the Southern Chile Ridge:
  • Ocean Ridge Basalts with Convergent Margin Geochemical Affinitities from the Southern Chile Ridge: Does Ridge Subduction Play a Role?
  • Origins of Igneous Layering
  • Overturning the Subpolar North Atlantic-the Labrador basin: Collaborative Research
  • PC Graphics Station for Wheel- Terrain Interaction Simulation
  • Paleoceanographic Implications of Deep Sea Benthic Foraminiteeral Culture
  • Paleoceanographic Implications of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera Culture
  • Paleoclimatic Research in Lake Titicaca
  • Periplatform Sediments and Environments on the Tectonically Active Nicaraguan Rise
  • Physiological and Ecosystem Structure Forcings on Carbon Fluxes in the Southern Ocean Mixed Layer
  • Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Proxies
  • Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Tracers
  • Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Tracers
  • Productivity, Stability, and Geomorphological Evolution of New England Salt Marshes: Plum Island Case Study
  • Project M(emphis) O(ld) Hole
  • Quantifying Drought-Induced Tree Mortality at Multiple Scales Across Texas: Impacts
  • Quantifying and minimizing dis-benefits to air quality in climate policy using the NASA GISS modelE2
  • Quantifying the Importance of Deep and Shallow Roots for Plant Water Use and Redistribution Using a Novel Cave System
  • Quantifying the carbon export potential of the marine microbial community: Coupling of biogenic rates and fluxes with genomics at the ocean surface
  • Quantitative Modeling of Gas Migration in Layered Intrusions
  • Quantitative Modeling of Infiltration in Layered Intrusions
  • Quaternary Paleoclimatic Record from Tropical South America: Drilling the Salar de Uyuni
  • Quaternary Paleoclimatic Record from Tropical South America: Lake Titicaca
  • REU Site: Near-Surface Geophysics Field Camp on an Active Salisic Volcano
  • Radioactivity and Isotopic Markers of Oil and Gas Liquid and solid Wastes in New York and Pennsylvania
  • Reconnaissance Field Trip to Southern California and Arizona
  • Reconstructing past climates of the Amazon basin from the isotopic analysis of tropical trees
  • Research Experience for Undergraduates, #OCE-8614162
  • Research Instrumentation: Computer Equipment for Simulation of Erosion/Deposition Processes in Arid Terrain
  • Research Instrumentation: Electronic Total Station
  • SAFOD: Near-Surface Geophysics and Field Camp Project
  • SGER Project to Calibrate a Deep-Sea Paleothermometer
  • Satellite measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
  • Seabed Variability and its Influence on Acoustic Prediction Uncertainty
  • Seasonality of Deep Sea Benthic Foraminifera: Supplement Request
  • Seasonality of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera
  • Sedimentary Process Modeling of Shelf Acoustic Properties in the Gulf of Lions
  • Sedimentation in Thermospheric and Psychospheric Environments: A Comparison of Western Pacific Basins
  • Sedimentation in Thermospheric and Psychospheric Environments: A Comparison of Western Pacific Basins
  • Sedimentation in Thermospheric and Psychrospheric Basins: A Comparison of the Sulu and South China Seas
  • Sichuan Basin Shale Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback Fluid Geochemical Features and Environmental Impact
  • Soil Carbon Transformation in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Implications for Soil, Water and Air
  • South Pacific SST Oscillations and Climate
  • Southeastern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research
  • Southern Environmental Law Center NC-TN
  • Southern Ocean Paleaproductivity: The Eocene-Oligocene Record
  • Structure and Composition of Fast Spread EPR Crust Exposed at Pito
  • Sub from U Missouri: Endocrine disrupting activity assoc w hydraulic fracturing
  • Support for MPOWIR activities and its direct connection to NASA labs
  • SusChEM: Geochmical Characterization and Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids
  • Temporal Evolution of Ripple-Field Characteristics: A Defect-Dynamic Approach
  • The Biogeochemical Compass: Navigating the Flows of Energy and Matter within the Southern Ocean
  • The Fine-scale Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of the Areas of Active Venting in Middle Valley, a Sedimented Rift of the Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge
  • The Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Sediments, Middle Valley, Juan de Fuca Ridge
  • The Impact of Subtropical Mode Water on the Subsurface Nutrient Reservoir: Adding Nutrient Measurements to CLIMODE
  • The Parkfield Downhole Seismology
  • The Parkfield Downhole Seismology Project
  • The Parkfield Downhole Seismology Project and Varian Array
  • The Southern Sierra Nevada Continental Dynamics Project
  • The Southern Sierras Continental Dynamics Project
  • The Toxicity of Coal Ash from India
  • The Western Transition Zone as a Gatekeeper for the North Atlantic MOC Throughput
  • To What Extent Can Increased Evapotranspiration Due to Groundwater Irrigation in the Great Plains of the US Alter Regional Climate?
  • Top down and bottom up influences of solar forcing on climate in an integrated chemistry climate atmosphere ocean model driven by SORCE
  • Toward Realistic Modeling of a Shelfbreak Front: Lagrangian Metrics and Process Studies for the Middle Atlantic Bight
  • Trace Metals Contamination from Oil and Gas Wastes in New York and Pennsylvania
  • Tracing Groundwater Contamination Near Coal Ash Ponds in North Carolina
  • Tracing Groundwater Contamination Near Coal Ash Ponds in North Carolina
  • Transfer from MSU: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Interpreting and Quantifying Emergent Catchment Hydrology Behavior
  • U.S. Science Support Program
  • USGS Oil and Gas Isotopic Samples Analyses
  • Unusual Biologic Activity on Desert Pavement Surfaces in Response to Recent El Nino Event
  • Upgrade Request for Triangle Universities Electron Microprobe Facility
  • Upgrade of the Duke University Electron Microprobe
  • Upgrade of the Duke University Electron Microprobe
  • Watershed hydro-climatology: Understanding climate and catchment structure influences on steamflow
  • Workshop for the Design of a Mentoring Program for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography

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